03 · Advise
Agentic consulting.
Honest help with intelligent automation: what a trained agent can genuinely take off your plate, what it cannot, and how to tell the difference before you spend money.
How much does agentic consulting cost?
Four tiers fit agentic consulting: the Consult, $8,000 to $20,000 (two to five days in your business, then a month of refining it); the Drop-In, $2,000 to $4,000 (one day, for one person or a few); the Relay, $5,000 to $10,000 (a custom CMS, an SEO engine, and work that runs itself); the Marathon, from $20,000 (the whole operation, systemized). Every price is fixed to the deliverable, never billed by the hour.
How long does agentic consulting take?
The Consult takes 2 to 5 days on site, then 30 days of refinement; the Drop-In one day, then 2 weeks of refinement; the Relay three phases over about 9 weeks; the Marathon six phases over about 12 weeks. A phased build is signed one phase at a time: half of that phase up front, half when it lands.
Agentic consulting
What a machine should do, and what it should not.
Agentic harness design
Custom agent systems that actually ship, designed and trained in-house: harness architecture, tool design, evaluation loops, guardrails.
- Harness architecture and tool design
- Evaluation loops before anything runs alone
- Guardrails as part of the build
You get the harness, still yours when the model changes
Agentic consulting
What a machine should do, and what it should not.
Intelligence strategy
Where large language models pay off in your operations, and where they don't. Honest scoping before a line of code.
- The tasks in your actual week, ranked
- Where it pays off, and where I say skip it
- Scoped before a line of code
Agentic consulting
What a machine should do, and what it should not.
Practice & small-business systems
Scheduling, intake, and back-office automation. A decade of clinical work means I speak fluent healthcare.
- Scheduling and intake
- The back office, automated
- A decade in clinical work behind it
Agentic consulting
What a machine should do, and what it should not.
In your office, or for a day
The Consult is two to five days in your business and thirty days of refinement after, sized for a team of about ten or more. The Drop-In is one day, on site or remote, for one person or a few. Everything built during either is yours outright.
- The Consult, $8,000 to $20,000
- The Drop-In, $2,000 to $4,000
- Refinement against a real week, included
The breakdown
What Advise covers.
Agentic harness design
Custom agent systems that actually ship, designed and trained in-house: harness architecture, tool design, evaluation loops, guardrails.
Intelligence strategy
Where large language models pay off in your operations, and where they don't. Honest scoping before a line of code.
Practice & small-business systems
Scheduling, intake, and back-office automation. A decade of clinical work means I speak fluent healthcare.
From the portfolio
Agents and assistants already at work.
Oregon Counselors
A statewide mental-health directory I built, branded and run end to end: custom platform, custom CMS, provider CRM and lead pipeline, a sear…
Rose Real Estate
Full business systemization for a Portland realtor: a rose-red brand system, a custom CMS with inline editing, CRM integration with nightly …
Grace Tarnasky Real Estate
A whole real-estate presence for an agent in The Dalles: her own brand and voice, a CMS she runs herself, and a trained assistant behind it.…
UlricCMS
The content system this site runs on: front-end inline editing, a role-based dashboard, a built-in CRM, and an assistant trained on the live…
Which engagement fits
On site, for a day, or built into a tier.
| Tier | What it is | Price | Shape |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Consult | Two to five days in your business, then a month of refining it | $8,000 to $20,000 | Two to five days on site · 30 days of refinement · for teams of about ten or more |
| The Drop-In | One day, for one person or a few | $2,000 to $4,000 | One day on site or remote · 2 weeks of refinement · one-time fee |
| Relay | A custom CMS, an SEO engine, and work that runs itself | $5,000 to $10,000 | 25 to 50-hour estimate · fixed price per phase · three phases |
| Marathon | The whole operation, systemized | from $20,000 | 100+ hour estimate · fixed price per phase · usually six phases |
Not sure which of the four this is? Fifteen minutes on a call sorts it, and you keep the plan either way.